Ali Kosh

32°33′28.13″N 47°19′29.72″E / 32.5578139°N 47.3249222°E / 32.5578139; 47.3249222

Ali Kosh
Map showing location of Ali Kosh and other locations of early herding activity
Neolithic sites in Iran
LocationIlam Province
RegionIran
Diameter135 m
History
Foundedc. 7500 BC
CulturesPre-Pottery Neolithic
Site notes
Discovered1960s
Archaeologists
Area of the fertile crescent, circa 7500 BC, with main sites. Ali Kosh is one of the important sites of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period. The area of Mesopotamia proper was not yet settled by humans.

Ali Kosh is a small Tell of the Early Neolithic period located in Ilam Province in west Iran, in the Zagros Mountains.[1] It was excavated by Frank Hole and Kent Flannery in the 1960s.[2]

  1. ^ Hole, Frank (10 October 2011). "Ali Kosh". Yale Campus Press. Yale University. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
  2. ^ Darvill, Timothy (2008). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2nd ed.). Oxford Reference. doi:10.1093/acref/9780199534043.001.0001. ISBN 9780191727139.